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flowered or with elongate branches; bracts usually glandless. 
Flowers about 10 mm. in diameter. Sepals unequal, the thre 
rea generally elliptical or oblong, rounded-obtuse or acute, the 
two smaller lanceolate, more or less acute; all entire or sparingly 
foliaceous. Petals gener: aly exceeding but " rarely much aa 
than the larger ce yellow piss black marginal dots. Stamens 
normally 15-20, occasional many as 30. Styles 2-3 mm. 
long. — ovoid-conie, idnatiliy but little exceeding the 
larger sep 
a. sciaiarune Rouy & Foucaud, J. c., p. 344. 
Icon. Reichb. Icon. 5176. 
Easice. H. bang decom Herb. Linn.! Magnier, Fl. Sel. 2684! 
Kerner, Fl. Austro-Hungarica, 47 ! 
Generally prostrate, with numerous stems 5-15 em. jong 
springing from the rootstock. Leaves 6-12 mm. long and 2-5 m 
broad. Sepals very unequal, entire (rarely glandelar-musronate 
or with a few serrulations in the latest flowers), the larger ellip- 
tical or ovate, rounded-obtuse and generally becoming foliaceous 
in the earliest flowers. Petals seatenly exceeding the larger 
sepals. 
b. laxu Robustior ef omnino major, caulibus 
20-35 cm. iste, ‘ollie, 10-20 mm. longis 4-6 mm. latisque, cymis 
sear iat re ramosissimis multifloris 
robust and larger in all its site with stems 20-35 cm. 
long, aad leaves 10-20 mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad. Cymes 
sometimes sony branched and many-flowered. 
8. Liottardit DC. Prodr. i. p.549 (1824); H. Liottardi: Villars, 
Hist. Pl. Deaph. p. 504 ee H. humifusum forme H. Liottardit 
Rouy & Foucaud, l. c. p. 
Icones. Villars, I. c., tab. xliv. ; netenh- Icon. 5176. 
Ezsicc. Magnier, Fl. Sel. ee 
Biennial or perhaps someti nual. Stem suberect or 
erect, 4-6 cm. high, filiform, Seat branched ries the base 
upwards. Leaves 6-13 mm -long an mm. broad, pein Lorn 
narrow, oblong. aloe and petals 4-merous or 5-merous, the 
sepals generally very unequal, entire and obtuse, but abe g0 cal 
fairly serrulate in some 5-merous forms; petals sometimes shorter 
than the larger sepals. 
y. decumbens Reichb. Icon. vi. p. 68 (1844); Rouy & Foucaud, 
l.c., p. 344; H. decumbens Peter ia be Be . p. 565 Aa 
“‘Teones. Reichb. Icon. 5176; Lond. ii. 50 (as 
H. humifuswm) ; Eng. Bot. 1226 (as umf sum). 
Exsicc. Rever rchon, Pl. d’Andalousie, 1887 (as H. humi- 
Jusum) 
Generally decumbent, oi irregularly branched rootstock, and 
more or less numerous stems, 10-35 em. long, some of which often 
